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When it was funny and successful and Calipari used moments of disobedience from his freshmen as the set-up for jokes?

Louisville quickly turned Kentucky's lack of discipline from cute and charming to bitter and unfavorable.

The No. 5 Wildcats (10-2) fell to the No. 11 Cardinals (11-1) in basketball for the first time in four years on Wednesday, as Monk missed eight of his nine 3-pointers and the Wildcats piled up missed shots (17 missed 3s, 10 missed free throws) and more turnovers (13) than assists (10).

It was all good when Monk scored 47 points and hit the game-winning shot Saturday against North Carolina in Las Vegas. It added to the legend that he heard Calipari yelling to drive the ball and instead launched a 3.

Calipari said it was fine if Monk wanted to take jump shots instead of attacking the rim to draw fouls.

Calipari accepted occasions when freshman De'Aaron Fox made passes into the post that were risky and weren't ideal.

"I mean, it just better work if you're not doing what I'm asking you to do," Calipari said.

It didn't work against Louisville.

Against the Cardinals, Monk sat 10 minutes in the first half in foul trouble and finished 6 of 17 from the floor with three turnovers and three rebounds. The Wildcats leading scorer never got into a rhythm and he never did enough to make up for an inefficient approach (16 points).

"Go rebound and defend," Calipari said. "He started the game and he fouled because of a lack of discipline. There was no reason to make that foul, but he doesn't have the discipline yet, so he fouls."

Kentucky's means for a bailout didn't come through. The fastbreak points dried up (Kentucky had 12). The second-chance opportunities died (four). The Cardinals imposed their choice of tempo, and Kentucky's half-court offense wasn't good enough.

Wildcats freshman Bam Adebayo scored 11 points and hit 5 of his 6 shots, but he didn't get the ball nearly enough. Fox finished with 21, but it took him 15 shots to get there.

And yet, Kentucky held a four-point lead with seven minutes to play. The Wildcats were in position to win despite the messes they made, and maybe the lessons that Calipari says need to be learned wouldn't have taken hold in that scenario.

But Quentin Snider made sure his in-state enemy's next seven days will be full of soul-searching. The Louisville junior scored a season-high 22 points, as Kentucky's still-learning freshmen didn't have the answers.

Kentucky didn't get away with the mental errors. On this day, the Wildcats weren't good enough and they could look at themselves as the reason why they lost. And that means in the future they might not be good enough. Unless, they themselves, halt the tendency to disregard.

The lack of discipline isn't cute when you lose. And now, Calipari says, he has a response of his own when the Wildcats return to practice the day after Christmas to prepare for Ole Miss on Dec. 29.

"It's the easiest way, the bench is my friend," Calipari said. "That's it. We're telling you what we're doing and you just decide to do your own thing, you're out. It's not when you miss a shot or when you turn it over, if you're not doing what you're supposed to for your team, that's discipline. And that's how you get a cohesive unit. They all trust each other because they all know, I know he's going to do what he's supposed to because this coach demands it."